October 28, 2010

Is this something?

It goes without saying (or, in this case, typing) that I don't trust anything the Dems do as being on the up-and-up, but I just can't figure out what's going on here...

The Democratic National Committee has asked the Pentagon to provide records of correspondence between the Army and nine potential challengers to President Obama in 2012, Fox News has confirmed, giving a unique glimpse of part of what appears to be the Democrats' opposition research strategy.

ABC News first reported an internal Army e-mail that indicates the DNC filed Freedom of Information Act requests for "any and all records of communication" between military agencies and Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, John Thune, Mitch Daniels and Bobby Jindal, all of whom are considering campaigning for the White House.

Does anyone have any theories about why they're doing this? I mean, they must have some kind of angle, or they wouldn't bother, but I just don't get it.